Papers of closest friend show Hillary Clinton to be ruthless & vengeful

She aped her husband’s word-parsing insistence that he didn’t actually “have sex with that woman,” as if oral sex isn’t sex. There’s also that cigar that good ol’ Bill stuck up Monica’s other orifice.

She excused her husband’s infidelities by attributing them to his difficult childhood, and contemptuously dismissed Monica Lewinsky as a “narcissistic loony toon” and women who complain about being sexually harassed by male politicians as “those whiny women.”

She is disdainful of the press, calling journalists people with “big egos” but “no brains.”

After she’d left the White House she said in a 2005 speech to the United Nations that she favored earlier intervention in the Balkans, and decried “the tragic failures in Rwanda, early Bosnia, and up to now, the inadequate response in Darfur.” At the time, however, in 1993, she was very much against any intervention in Bosnia and dismissed the atrocities there with “they had been killing each other for 900 yrs.”

And despite her public denials, in private she stated her belief in a “single payer” (i.e., national/government) health care system for America.

On May 12, 1992, Stan Greenberg and Celinda Lake, top pollsters for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, issued a confidential memo. The memo’s subject was “Research on Hillary Clinton.”

Voters admired the strength of the Arkansas first couple, the pollsters wrote. However, “they also fear that only someone too politically ambitious, too strong, and too ruthless could survive such controversy so well.”

The full memo is one of many previously unpublished documents contained in the archive of one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential candidate as a strong,ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative.

The papers of Diane Blair, a political science professor Hillary Clinton described as her “closest friend” before Blair’s death in 2000, record years of candid conversations with the Clintons on issues ranging from single-payer health care to Monica Lewinsky.

The archive includes correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos, and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons ranging from the mid-1970s to the turn of the millennium.

Diane Blair’s husband, Jim Blair, a former chief counsel at Tyson Foods Inc. who was at the center of “Cattlegate,” a 1994 controversy involving the unusually large returns Hillary Clinton made while trading cattle futures contracts in the 1970s, donated his wife’s papers to the University of Arkansas Special Collections library in Fayetteville after her death.

The full contents of the archive, which before 2010 was closed to the public, have not previously been reported on and shed new light on Clinton’s three decades in public life. The records paint a complex portrait of Hillary Clinton, revealing her to be a loyal friend, devoted mother, and a cutthroat strategist who relished revenge against her adversaries and complained in private that nobody in the White House was “tough and mean enough.”